Rob Wachen

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529 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 30 Jun

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every day.

We'd all get on the Zoom.

We'd share all the data.

We'd say, when I wake up, this must be done.

Yeah.

Like, we must get this chip out.

And it was extremely intense.

At the same time, we saw other chips at the same stage as us with that same vendor that ended up taking years that still aren't out today.

They still haven't even taped out today.

And it's that level of extreme urgency that's required to bring products to market.

I think there's a great quote of like, the biggest risk is not taking risk.

Very similar here, which is like every day there's over a billion dollars of revenue in this category and a lot of it's inference.

So every day we don't ship, we're just leaving tons of opportunity on the table.

So your willingness to spend money should be extremely high if you can get a very clear ROI out of it.

So we have this concept that we call prefetching, which is when you're waiting for one thing to get done,

When you know you're going to do other things once you have it, is there ways that you can parallelize the entire schedule?

So for example, we know our chip is going to come back on a certain date.

We want it to be that everything possible that can be done without the chip is done before the chip lands.

And this costs a lot of money.

This means that we want to build our entire software stack beforehand.

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